Looking for leaders Starting with a bang Top-40 sizzler released The Associated Students will honor 55 SJSU The 'Escape Club's' hot album 'Dollars and The SJSU baseball team opened Big West students for their outstanding leadership play with a 2-1 series victory over UCSB Sex' hits the modern rock scene Page 4 Page 8 Page 6 SPARTAN DAILY Vol. 96, No. 39 Published for San Jose State University since /934 Tuesday, April 2, 1991
CSU budget cuts cited SJSU to adopt no credit-card-payment policy By Carolyn Swaggart must be done without credit cards. Interstate Bank, which charges the fee. fees by raising merchandise cost, but Daily staff writer Other departments that have decided to Budget cuts at the university were cited SJSU cannot raise school fees simply to Before the decision was Various departments around SJSU will adopt the new policy include University as the main reasons credit cards will no accommodate the use of the cards, she no longer be accepting credit cards as a Housing Services and Parking Services. longer be accepted. A choice had to be explained. made to stop accepting the means of payment, citing the cards' trans- Athletics and Continuing Education have made between changing the policy or fac- "This is a service that is kind of an extra cards, their use cost the uni- action charge as the reason. decided to continue using the credit cards. ing the "potential for layoffs," according to benefit," Green noted. Student Financial Services initiated the Before the decision was made to stop Barbara Green, director of fiscal services. Green also pointed out that the universi- versity $100,000 last fiscal move when Connie Sauer, associate exec- accepting the cards, their use cost the uni- "I have sent to the Chancellor's Office ty is seeking possible alternatives to the utive vice president of business and finan- versity $100,000 last fiscal year, according proposed legislation that will allow us to cards. "We're also checking banks for year.Each time a credit card cial services, brought the credit card to Linda Vasquez, director of student charge students for this fee," explained anything useful to the students at no extra was used, SJSU was billed expenses to the attention of her superiors. financial services. Green, noting that state law prohibits cost to the university." Several other departments have followed Each time a credit card was used, SJSU retailers from charging back. SJSU is clas- Students who would usually pay their fees $1.26 per $100 charged with their lead. Any payments at the cashiers was billed $1.26 per $100 charged with sified as a retailer under the law. through credit card might consider getting a the card. office that will apply to the fall semester the card. SJSU has a contract with First Retailers usually respond to credit card cash advance instead, Vasquez advised. Campus Flying high SJSU officials fire drill hope to ease exercise planned budget crunch By Chris Lillie But Deputy Supervisor of San Daily staff writer Prop. 98 funds Jose Unified School District Barry Don't panic when alarms sound Schimmel said that pink slips have across campus at 10 a.m. today threatened by already been sent to 109 teachers they'll be signaling a drill, not an in the district because of the poten- earthquake. state's $13 billion tial cutbacks. He said that job cuts Almost every campus building weren't a fact of life yet and that will participate in today's emer- financial deficit the pink slips were just precaution- gency exercise. SJSU Emergency ary, but there was a good chance Preparedness Coordinator Dick By Claudia Bramkamp that the district would have to lay Staley said. Daily staff writer off teachers next year. As state legislators prepare to "Funding for education is in The drill's purpose is to test meet with Governor Pete Wilson SJSU's readiness in the face of an serious jeopardy," he said. "We to hash out a solution to the state won't have the need for as many emergency, he said. budget's looming $13 billion "We're encouraging people to new hires if class sizes get larger deficit, campus officials and union but there will gill be jobs in edu- take this seriously," Staley said. representatives locally are making "A real emergency isn't going to cation, especially for teachers who plans to minimize the effects of are bilingual or teach science and announce itself. We are encourag- possible budget cuts to education. ing people to be survivors." math." Members of the California Fac- In addition to the effort to pro- Once the alarms sound, faculty, ulty Association and California staff and students are supposed to tect Prop. 98 funds, on April 16 Teachers Association plan to the California State Students Asso- "duck, cover and hold for 30 sec- descend on Sacramento April 3 to onds" and then evacuate as far as ciation will sponsor a lobbying ask legislators to protect education effort in Sacramento to protect all possible from the buildings, he Proposition 98, budgets funded by state education funds. A drive said. a voter-sponsored initiative that called "Take Back Our Education" Any disruption to classes will promised 40 percent of the state's he minimal, Staley added. is planning a massive rally by stu- revenues to education. dents and faculty of various "We're only asking for 20 or 30 Students and faculties of minutes out of the academic year." schools, including the University schools throughout the state, fear of California College system, com- he said. that if Prop. 98 funds are reduced. Buildings excluded from the munity colleges, and primary atl.! class sizes in grades kindergarten secondary schools throughout it drill such as the Student Union, through 12 will increase beyond state. Event Center and residence halls the system's ability to offer stu- -- undergo separate emergency According to SJSU director dents an adequate education. SJSU Marci Pedrazzi. local organiza- preparedness tests. Staley said. students graduating from the Recently renovated Washington tions on campus are currently reg- school of education fear trying to istering their membership to vote Square Hall will not participate for find employment after graduation another reason. and each individual group is plan- as the ratio of students to teachers ning its own lobbying effort. The "People just finished moving escalates. C.S.S.A. recommends that stu- into the building," Staley said. Sam Fart, Assemblyman for the dents concerned about the future "They're just physically not ready 29th District said that the state of higher education attend the rally for this exercise." school system accepts 250,000 in Sacramento or talk to their local Today's drill is important for new students each year and that new faculty and students who may legislators in person. State assem- the budget for education increases blymen and senators can generally not know emergency procedures. every year to meet that demand. said George Curtis. one of Duncan be reached in their local offices on "Education is the most impor- Fridays. hail's assistant emergency coordi- tant product of the state of Califor- Dominic Cortese, Assembly- nators. nia The state legislature will not "These drills are to keep every- Ken Wong Daily staff photographer man for the 24th District said he abdicate its duty, but tough deci- objected to cutting any education body at the same level of pre- Senior aviation major Rodel Pasibe, gets some ic Pasibe took advantage of one of the short sions will have to be made," he budgets. Cortese said that good paredness." Curtis said. "I think air while grabbing a Frisbee tossed to him on breaks from recent rains that spring break said. "We'll only be in favor of higher education shouldn't he pit- they're extremely valuable for per. the lawn by Tower Hall last week. The acrobat- granted us by tossing the Frisbee with a friend. suspending the mechanics of Prop. 98 after education is fully funded. See EFEECTS, see page 7 SeeQUAKE', page 7 Delays plague new library computer system By Faye Wells the system over the past semester. As sources came up in nano- and we must update patron records Speaal the Daily Although its most powerful fea- seconds on the terminals, people on the new system. We hope that Clark Library brought up its ture, the key-word search, has not waited an hour to renew or check people will be patient." new computer catalog Thursday, a been completely loaded, students, out books at the circulation desk. The library does not want to quiet day during the spring break. professors and librarians spoke Until all books are converted to maintain the old circulation system But Monday as spring break well of INNOPAC. the new system's circulation status. because it costs $3.000 a month. ended, high technology couldn't Circulation data, now on the old they cannot be renewed by num- Whitlatch said. Had the budget not keep up with the overflow of stu- system must be converted to ber. been cut back this year, the library dents needing to return or check INNOPAC. The result is hour-long The wait angered one borrower probably would have waited until out books. As students, professors delays to check-out or renew a who had expected to renew with- the end of the semester to convert and librarians researched authors, book, and frayed tempers of peo- out having to carry the books in. all books and data to INNOPAC, subjects and titles in seconds, oth- ple who tried to renew hooks by "How long would it take to she explained. ers waited for as much as an hour number. write a sign to tell people they Laura Welsh-Litzinger said she to renew or check out books. As reference librarian Mengx- could not renew by number" the finds INNOPAC user-friendly. "I Jeanette Glidisman Daily staff photographer INNOPAC, the new software, iong Liu. checked state and federal student said. was ready to throw out the old sys- traces sources faster than their pre- water regulations for a marine "There are two problems." said tem." said Welsh-Litzinger while check in Students wait in long lines at Clark Library Monday to vious system Bookfinder, accord- biology major, a fellow librarian Jo Whitlatch. associate director of doing research for SJSU professor and renew hooks. The lines are a result of the library's switch last ing to Judy Reynolds, who has said she would not want to be on Clark Library. "We must get books Larry Gersion. Thursday to an on- line catalogue system called INNOPAC. trained reference librarians to use the circulation desk. out of the old circulation record, See LIBRARY, page 7
_Mk Page 2, Tuesday, April 2, 1991 Forum Opinions Spartan Daily
EDITORIAL LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Accepting a fee increase face these unprecedented cuts. Cellulite police on alert I have heard fees increases characterized A lot has been said about the impending The roof leaks in my new office (the as a major threat to retention. I would like budget crisis and how this will affect Business Quad) and the air conditioning Stay out of Iraqi revolts to point out that there are other threats to students at SJSU. Our state government is was left on the other day. Nothing unique retention. There is a "nuisance factor" that the fighting between the For example, if the U.S. were to in turmoil as they attempt to balance a in it. Those same conditions frequently contributes to students' abandoning their budget that is $10 billion short. We need, existed in Business Tower. I'd complain AsU.S. and Iraqi forces bolster fighting power of the education. Such "nuisances" as long lines now more than ever, to remind our leaders to God, but I'm sure she has other fish to comes to a halt, questions Shiite revolters and they were to at admissions and records, unavailable and representatives in Sacramento how fry. have been raised about whether overthrow Saddam, who would parking for students that have to balance important higher education is to our state. I trust in due course you will follow our military responsibility in the the new government align three-way commutes to work, school and The major proposal being discussed at through and ban smoking in the back of home; shortages in class sections that Middle East should extend to themselves with? this time would both cut our education the two dining halls the only proper force students to take longer to graduate aiding Kurdish and Shiite rebels Most likely, not the U.S. but with system-wide budget cuts, and also course and in the open air 'twist and because they simply can't get the classes fighting Saddam loyalists in Iraq. with neighboring Iran, who is impose higher fees for students (as much 'tween buildings it is your private air they need; unavailability of tutoring to as the region's pre- as 20 percent to 60 percent higher). The space of course. Bush's decision to turn away on emerging help students; inability to buy the books two cannot go together. We cannot allow That done, you must move on. Obesity is the insurgents was tough but, we eminent power thanks, ironically, one needs for classes; poor security for the quality of our education to be rampant on the campus (even in the feel, the most prudent. Although to our crushing of Iraq. women who have to worry about a poorly compromised, and it is there that I draw higher administrative quarters). This lit campus when attending evening the U.S. would like to see the line. requires your immediate action. Might I classes; and untold layers of beauracracy Saddam's regime fall, only the Thirdly, the United States is We need to retain the younger faculty recommend that all food be banned in infesting this campus that are people of Iraq can legitimately still operating under the that will become the tenured professors of faculty offices, all fast food dispensers be compounded further by staff shortages. determine their own fate. umbrella of the United tomorrow, and not threaten them with eliminated from the campus, food only be I personally, won't blindly oppose any layoffs because of the state's budget served during meal hours with two lines First of all, if the U.S. were to Nations mandate that exclusively increase of fees; I think that's stupid. I crisis. We need to maintain reasonable one of diet food for the obviously fat lend their military might to an authorized the use of force to oust will instead simply ask that any fee class sizes so that education can remain a and a regular service for the morally thin. incohesive band of rebels, the Iraq from Kuwait after a firm increases be kept reasonable and personal learning experience. We need to I'm assured by my good physician that be too indefinite. deadline. Deciding unilaterally to predictable so that students can plan outcome would maintain the diversity of our curriculum. fat is at least the killer cigarette smoking ahead for them, and that financial aid be The chaotic state of the Middle breach that mandate would We need to have enough sections of is and at an earlier age yet. increased in proportion to fees. I don't East hardly lends itself to a black undermine the United Nations classes available so that students can get So, you have much to do and I trust you want to see our fees increased to bail out and white choice of which rebel coalition as well as our national the classes they need, when they need will get on with it as quickly as possible. the state's general fund. them. We need to have enough capacity to So much fat! So little time! So many faction to support. Our integrity. Blair Whitney support our university's enrollment, or we opportunities for petty tyranny! understanding of the vastly Lastly, it's time for our men and Junior will face a system becoming backed up as different sects and their ideals is women in uniform to come home. English students take longer and longer to Ed Laurie meager at best. Consequently, It was bad enough that they had to Associated Students graduate. None of this will be easy to do, Professor Director, Community Affairs blind support of a rebel force fight in a region that compares the and none of this can be done while we Marketing would only serve as a shield for American way of life to satanism. U.S. interests in a region where They belong home, basking in the Unjust firing remembered consider the huge money the bigger Undoubtedly, some Spartan supporters schools to "look ahead" and over-extension of our presence glory of their effort with friends March 21 marked the one-year (Cal, Stanford, USC, etc.) spend. will say it is time will muzzle further peace efforts. and family. anniversary of one of the darkest days in In his nine years of coaching at SJSU, "forget" the past. Well, I can't forget the school SJSU's athletic history the firing of Claude's teams went to two California injustice or damage that my Head Football Coach Claude Gilbert. Bowls, won two conference inflicted on the reputation and good heart championships, and football coach! I know I won't and can't forget what they established of an excellent themselves as truly "my" university did to such a decent, one of the best (if not the The only way the university can best) in the Bay Area. In to finally admit hard-working man who gave his all to addition, Claude start the healing process is himself became recognized as a and pay Coach Gilbert what "his" university (remember he graduated highly- their injustice respected judge of not from SJSU too). Coach Gilbert wanted to only football talent he deserves. see the SJSU football program grow and (Mike Perez, James Saxon, etc.) but he helped establish it as one of the best on coaches as well (remember current Coach Terry Holzemer the West Coast, especially when you Terry Shea was once his assistant). Burlingame
REPORTER'S FORUM average. I spent most of my adolescence outgrowing my peers and being ignored BROOKE SHELBY BIGGS by the authority figures I tried to emulate. I was floating in social purgatory. Realizing mortality In bifocal-aided hindsight, my rush toward adulthood was straight out of Indiana Jones. I sped across the bridge as a birthday gift of adolescence as it crumbled behind me into the future below. Mortality has its good and bad points. drugs, gangs and violence. In 1975, I I am beginning to realize that I am I should know. I just had my last good didn't know what divorce was, or drugs among the last who can even dream of birthday. I'm 21. and my mortality or gangs. Violence was Wile E. Coyote. owning a home in the future. I am follows me around like a piece of toilet I was sheltered and privileged and among the last who will be able to tissue stuck to the heel of my shoe. oblivious to the uglier side of the world. attend a public university before the Of course, lots of cynics like to quote Still, it wasn't all fun and games. money runs out. whoever it was who said that if you're either. Childhood never was. Even if today's nine -year-olds not busy being born, you're busy dying. managed to stay out of jail, away from I used to count myself among the cynics the bottle and out of the maternity ward of the world, but now I'm not so sure. After 21 years of straining until they're 21, they'll be lucky to get Mortality does that to you it makes the degrees, adequate training and you wishy-washy. toward my next birthday', decent opportunities to get anywhere in After 21 years of straining toward my I'm now faced with the world. next birthday, I'm now faced with becoming one of those For all my moaning, I can't deny that becoming one of those whining adults I'm damn lucky. who deny their age and wallow in their whining adults who deny Maybe I'm not a kid anymore, but the misery whenever the fateful day arrives. their age and wallow in truth is. I don't even want to be. Such typifies the futility of age, because Mortality made me appreciate the fact everybody else can see the toilet tissue their misery whenever the that I am living what may become one billowing out in the breeze. fateful day arrives. of the last bearable lives in an But I plan to resist becoming a slave to increasingly unbearable world. I'm the calendar. I hereby chain myself to living. That's the point. reality. Some say wistfully that children are And so as I drove through San Just like everyone, I've missed my pure and honest. But honesty hurts Francisco last weekend, trying to find childhood in a hallucinogenic sort of when the truth is that you are the geek some marked poetic justice in visiting way for about 10 years now. It was all of the seventh grade. When you're a kid the city of my birth exactly 21 years four-square and Chutes and Ladders. and you don't fit the cool mold, you later, I looked to the sky and watched a soccer championships and Shawn don't fit. It can be lonely. rainbow touch down in the Cassidy. Yes, it was that for a But I always could wow 'em in the Embarcadero. combined total of about 24 hours. classroom, and won accolades from I couldn't get the smile off my face for Honestly, childhood is a drag, and I adults. They put me in accelerated the next 20 miles as I drove through the Corrections and amplifications wanted it over almost before it began. programs, and eventually I ended up an surreal, emerald hills back to my life in Due to a reporter's error in the March the case was under investigation. For all the times my parents said I'd overgrown intellect in an under- San Jose. Thank God I'm mortal, I 22 Spartan Daily, Zohrch Pierow's If you believe that an error has been want to go back. I never really have. developed psyche. thought. Everyone I know who's name was misspelled. Pierow said she printed, please notify either Angus Especially today, when surviving I wanted to be regarded as an adult, immortal has been dead for years. but I looked like Pippi Longstocking. I did not decline to comment on the case. Klein, executive editor, or Anthony childhood is no joke. Instead, Picrow directed questions Cats[do, forum editor at (408) 924- They just don't make childhood like had opinions on foreign policy when I about the case to her superior because 3280. they used to. Today it's about divorce, was 13, but the adults I idolized only Brooke Shelby Biggs is a Spartan leaned over to ask me my batting Daily staff writer.
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